Luocheng Mulao Autonomous County (
Zhuang: , ) is an
ethnic Mulao county of northern
Guangxi
Guangxi,; officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam (Hà Giang Province, Hà Giang, Cao Bằn ...
, China. It is under the administration of
Hechi
Hechi ( zh, c=河池) is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China, bordering Guizhou to the north. The actual inner city itself is referred as Jinchengjiang ( zh, c=金城江). ...
City. It is the only
Mulao autonomous county in China.
Administrative divisions
There are 7
towns
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The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...
and 4
townships in the county:
* Towns:
**
Dongmen ()
**
Long'an ()
**
Huangjin ()
**
Xiaochang'an ()
**
Siba ()
**
Tianhe ()
**
Huaiqun ()
*Townships:
**
Baotan Township ()
**
Qiaoshan Township ()
**
Naweng Township ()
**
Jian'ai Township ()
Languages
The
Mulao language (or Mulam) is spoken by the
Mulao people
The Mulao people (; own name: ''Mulam'') are an ethnic group. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. In their name, ''Mulam'', ''mu''6 is a classifier for human beings and ''lam''1 (in some ...
of Luocheng County.
At least seven varieties of
Chinese are spoken in Luocheng County (Edmondson 1992:137).
*
Putonghua is the national language of China.
*Gui-Liu Hua is a local
Pinghua variety spoken in
Guilin
Guilin (Standard Zhuang: ''Gveilinz''), postal map romanization, formerly romanization of Chinese, romanized as Kweilin, is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of China's Guangxi, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is situated on the we ...
and
Liuzhou
Liuzhou (; , Standard Mandarin: , Liuzhou Yue dialect: International Phonetic Alphabet, iəu53 ʦəu44 is a prefecture-level city in north-central Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. The prefecture's population was 4 ...
. It was spoken by government officials formerly sent to administer the region, and also used to be spoken in the provincial court.
*Tuguai Hua is the local
Southwestern Mandarin
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vernacular spoken in Luocheng,
Rongshui, and other nearby counties.
*Magai is a Cantonese variety introduced by migrating merchants from
Guangdong
) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...
.
*Ngai is a form of Southern Chinese with seven tones. It is spoken by 20,000 Han peasant agriculturalists.
*Yangsan is an archaic form of Chinese now spoken by only 300 people. It retains voiced stops and ten tones.
*
Southern Min
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was introduced by recent migrants from
Fujian
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.
Climate
References
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Edmondson, Jerold A. 1992. "Fusion and diffusion in E, Guangxi Province, China". T. Dutton et al. (eds.) ''The language game: papers in memory of Donald C. Laycock'' (Pacific Linguistic Series, C-110). Department of Linguistics, Australian National University, Canberra, 135–144.
County-level divisions of Guangxi
Administrative divisions of Hechi
Autonomous counties of the People's Republic of China
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